Shoreline PTA Council awards scholarships
Each year, the Shoreline PTA Council gives two $500 scholarships to graduating seniors, made possible by local PTAs and donations from the community. This year the PTA was able to give four scholarships, two for each high school.
Scholarship winners were Colin Lynch and Lucy Nolan from Shorecrest High School and Anum Aziz and Josh Holguin from Shorewood High School.
The goals of the Shoreline PTA Council are to advocate for children and adults for quality learning and resources, for their health and well being, to provide support for Shoreline local PTA / PTSA units through advocacy, networking, information and training, and to encourage and facilitate open communication lines among the adults in education.
For information, call Diane Kamacho at 206-510-9497 or e-mail her at dmkbudget@hotmail.com.
Wonderland Center hosts event
The Wonderland Developmental Center will host its annual Friends and Family Potluck from 4-7 p.m. July 23 at the center, 816 NE 190th St. in Shoreline. The event will be at the soccer field behind the North City building.
There will be cookie decorating, a barbecue cookout, face painting, arts and crafts and more.
If you plan on bringing a dish to share, or want to help plan the activities, please let the organizers know.
RSVP by July 18 by calling 206-364-3777 or send e-mail to cbull@wdcbirthtothree.org.
Choir will sing at Carnegie Hall
The Shorewood Aeolian Choir is one of four choirs selected to participate in the Carnegie Hall National High School Choral Festival in 2009.
There will be a yearlong educational program during in which the choir, directed by John Hendrix, will prepare a work to be performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the direction of Craig Jessop, director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
One performance will be at Carnegie Hall and the other at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in March 2009.
Hendrix and the other choir directors will be flown by Carnegie Hall to New York for a professional development weekend with Jessop, and Jessop will visit each high school for a full day of rehearsals.
Shorewood was selected from more than 80 choirs that auditioned.
At the festival, Shorewood will sing “A Child of Our Time” by Michael Tippett. Arising from the atrocities against Jewish people by the Nazis, it makes social and political commentary about man’s inhumanity to man. African-American spirituals are used throughout the work. When performed at the Apollo Theater it will be included as part of a Carnegie Hall series, “Honor! A Celebration of the African American Cultural Legacy.”
Dealerships help fund SCC growth
The Professional Automotive Training Center at Shoreline Community College is growing to support the number of students there. Private and corporate donors have donated $2.3 million and the state contributed another $2 million for a $5.5 million, 26,000-square-foot expansion of the center.
The additional space will also provide more training opportunities for manufacturers. Once the addition is complete, plans include reaching out to more manufacturers.
Ground-breaking is slated for March 2008, with construction estimated to be complete by November 2009.
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